Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Saturday said steps will be taken against Priya Saha, who works in a Bangladeshi NGO, if she fails to prove her allegation told earlier to US President Donald Trump about oppression of minorities.
The Home Minister came up with the disclosure at a press briefing at his Dhanmoni residence in the morning.
“Her allegation is false and fabricated. She will be interrogated regarding the issue. If she fails to prove her allegation, legal action will be taken against her’, the home minister said.
Priya, from Pirojpur, who works in SHAREE, an NGO, recently met Trump at the White House and made the allegation.
“I am from Bangladesh and here is the 37 million Hindu, Buddhist and Christian are disappeared. Please, help us, the Bangladeshi people. We want to stay in our country. Still there are 18 million minority people. My request is: please help us, we don’t want to leave our country. Just help us to stay. I have lost my home, they burnt my home, they taken my land; but no judgement here taken place… please.”
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“The Muslim fundamentalist group. And they are always getting political shelter,” Priya replied.
Earlier, the State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam has strongly condemned the allegations made by a Bangladeshi minority leader to US President Donald Trump, and said the government will look into the issue.
“I answered various questions from various countries and NGOs, both at home and abroad, related to human rights several times, in the full house of the UN human rights agency. Individuals like Rana Dasgupta were there too. But I never saw anyone asking questions with the allegations that Priya Saha made,” he said on Friday.
Shahriar said the government would listen to her allegations and look into those.
Delegates from 106 countries with about 40 foreign ministers attended the meeting at the invitation US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
